There is seemingly no way to get a Sketchup model to work properly in Blender. Pls help
You will find that it works with Blender render, but not cycles render. Once in blender render mode (not cycles) change your view to Material rather than shaded or textured. You'll see your sketchup model as it appears in sketchup, with slightly better rendering. Rendering from here doesn't work well. 
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